Notice2024-31281
Notice of Inventory Completion: Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI
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Published
December 30, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Milwaukee Public Museum has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 249 (Monday, December 30, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 106571]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-31281]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039244; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Milwaukee Public Museum,
Milwaukee, WI
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Milwaukee Public Museum has completed an
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human
remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after January 29, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Dawn Scher Thomae, Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W Wells
Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233 telephone (414) 278-6157, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#94e0fcfbf9f5f1d4f9e4f9baf1f0e1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5d293532303c381d302d3073383928">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
Milwaukee Public Museum, and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in its inventory or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at least, 67 individuals have been
identified. The 3,967 associated funerary objects are hornstone blades,
bifaces, chert blades, flakes; charcoal; copper artifacts including
awls, crescents, points, beads; wood fragments; quartzite flakes; stone
fragments; soil samples; stone points and cores; birchbark fragments;
shell beads, red sandstone/catlinite fragments; worked stone or
whetstones; limonite; seeds, bark, deer premolar, and a shell.
The Riverside Site was excavated jointly by the Oshkosh Public
Museum (OPM) and MPM between 1961 and 1963. The excavation was led by
Robert Hrushka of OPM and Robert Ritzenthaler of MPM. Most of the site
collections were donated to the MPM by the Oshkosh Public Museum on 9/
26/1968. The Riverside Site is considered a multicomponent site
representing Late Archaic to the Mississippian time periods, with the
main component being a Late Archaic/Early Woodland Transition/Red Ochre
Culture cemetery dating between 1000 and 100 BC.
The MPM is unaware of the presence of any potentially hazardous
substances used to treat any of the human remains or associated
funerary objects.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
The Milwaukee Public Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of at least 67 individuals of Native American
ancestry.
<bullet> The 3,967 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Menominee
Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after January
29, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
Milwaukee Public Museum must determine the most appropriate requestor
prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects are considered a single request
and not competing requests. The Milwaukee Public Museum is responsible
for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native
Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: December 19, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-31281 Filed 12-27-24; 8:45 am]
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